Warlock 1-20 Leveling Guide

This guide will help you play a Warlock in World of Warcraft from levels 1-20, including an overview, abilities, and specialization choices. To learn about other classes, please visit our Class Information Hub. If you want to read more detailed information about each specialization, check out our Affliction, Demonology, and Destruction guides.

In Legion, players can participate in a Class Trial before purchasing a boost. Below is the video for the Warlock Class Trial, more videos in our guide:

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Overview

Warlocks can ignite distant enemies in searing flame, send them fleeing in terror and pain, or afflict them with corrupting diseases and curses that steal the victim’s vitality. These practitioners of the profane are feared across Azeroth, and many who have felt their wrath now prefer to fight alongside a warlock than against one.

Warlocks are very survivable damage dealers, between having their pets tank for them to using to heal themselves or using on themselves so that they can return from death.

Warlocks use mana as a resource however they also use a secondary resource, Soul Shards. Several abilities generate Soul Shards while others consume Soul Shards.

Choosing A Specialization

Warlocks are primarily damage dealers. All 3 specs have different characteristics that set them apart. From Demonology commanding hordes of demons to Affliction assaulting your enemies with curses and damage over time abilities.

Abilities

When you first start off, you will only have the ability . At level 5 you will also have a starter demon pet to aid you in your journey: .. You will start off with an Imp Pet, this pet will attack anything you attack as long as it is set to Assist or Defensive via the pet bar located above your action bar. If you do not want your pet to attack when you attack, set it to Passive. As you level up you will gain more demons to add to your arsenal, you can swap between demons via the ability "Summon Demon". Different demons have different abilities and uses.

At Level 3 you will learn . This is your first "Damage over time" spell or "Dot" for short. These dots may not seem like they do much, but over a short time they can do quite a bit of damage. Make sure for higher level enemies, you always keep your dots up. Dots fall off after their duration is over, in this spells case, 14 secs. They also can be cleansed off and fall off early, so make sure you reapply them. You normally want to start off by putting your dots on an enemy, then filling in with . At level 10 and 16, should you stay with Affliction, you will learn more DoTs: and . Both of these abilities can generate Soul Shards in different ways, but takes one to cast.

You will also get some more interesting utility abilities and additional demon pets: at level 20, this is a new demon pet. Voidwalkers are strong, durable demons. They can "tank" for you and hold the enemies attention while you bombard them with spells. This is a pet you will usually use while adventuring in the world. At level 18 you will learn . You can only have 1 of these at any given time. So make sure you create one, and put it on your action bar and use it when you need a quick heal. One you've used the charges up, you can create another one. Level 16 you will learn . This is an interesting spell. You can disorient your enemy while it runs in fear, you can attack it but it may cause it to break. If you use this spell over and over on the same target it will become less effective. You can also use it on an enemy that you think is too strong for you so you can buy yourself sometime to run away.

Use , learned at level 8, to gain mana at the cost of some health.

Warlocks fit the fantasy of being bringers of controlled demons and assaulting their foes with powers of shadow and fire. Corrupting enemies with curses and having their demons do the dirty work.

At Level 10, you can change your specialization:

Affliction: A range spec that uses many damage over time abilities. Use , , , along with casting . Use for AoE. Affliction is a master of damage over time abilities, using them to their full potential.

Demonology: A range spec that harnesses the power of your demons to vanquish your foes. Demonology Warlocks are able to summon more powerful demons that normal Warlocks can't control. Such as . You can even summon hordes of demons with and . Keep , , and up when possible.

Destruction: A range spec that harnesses the destructive power of fire. You want to maintain your dot of while casting and . Use for AoE and to do serious DPS to a second target.

At Level 15, you have your choice for a first talent: Affliction: , , or .Demonology: , , or .Destruction: , , or .

Kommentare

Kommentar von altopelirrojo

The Conflagration link you are using refers to an ability used by one of Beastlord Darmac's animals in Blackrock Foundry. This is very different from the Conflagrate spell used by destruction warlocks. While leveling, you should use Conflagrate when it's available, especially if you have two charges, as it reduces the cast time for the next three Incinerates or the next Chaos Bolt you cast due to a passive ability called Backdraft. However, Backdraft is not available at low levels so would be beyond the scope of this guide. But at all levels Conflagrate is free instant damage that can be cast while moving.

Kommentar von radtradt

The summon voidwalker link is broken, it's spell 697 not 69. The healthstone section implies that the item has one charge, not 3. Also it would be good to mention that while the voidwalker is a good tank for solo questing and leveling, it is NOT good for dungeons. The imp or felhunter is preferred while in groups. If your voidwalker tries to taunt a mob's attention off of your group's tank, at best you will have an annoyed tank, and at worst it could cause your group to die.

Kommentar von mindthegap5

It would probably be a good idea too to explain that if they do join a dungeon they should not use the voiwalker, or at the least turn it's taunt off by right clicking it.